Book Of Jubilees
The
BookBook of Jubilees, sometimes called Lesser Genesis (Leptogenesis),
is an ancient
JewishJewish religious work of 50 chapters, considered
canonical by the
Ethiopian Orthodox ChurchEthiopian Orthodox Church as well as Beta Israel
(Ethiopian Jews), where it is known as the
BookBook of Division (Ge'ez:
መጽሃፈ ኩፋሌ Mets'hafe Kufale). Jubilees is considered one
of the pseudepigrapha by Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern
Orthodox Churches.[1]
It was well known to Early Christians, as evidenced by the writings of
Epiphanius, Justin Martyr, Origen, Diodorus of Tarsus, Isidore of
Alexandria, Isidore of Seville, Eutychius of Alexandria, John Malalas,
George Syncellus, and George Kedrenos
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Jubilee (biblical)
The Jubilee (Hebrew: יובל‬ yūḇāl; Yiddish: yoyvl) is the
year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years), and
according to Biblical regulations had a special impact on the
ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel; there is some
debate whether it was the 49th year (the last year of seven sabbatical
cycles, referred to as the Sabbath's Sabbath), or whether it was the
following (50th) year. Jubilee deals largely with land, property, and
property rights. According to Leviticus, slaves and prisoners would be
freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be
particularly manifest. Leviticus 25:8-13 states:You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years;
and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even
forty-nine years. Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth
day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the
trumpet throughout all your land
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Tanakh
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TanakhTanakh (/tɑːˈnɑːx/;[1] תַּנַ"ךְ,
pronounced [taˈnaχ] or [təˈnax]; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach),
also called the Mikra or Hebrew Bible, is the canonical collection of
Jewish texts, which is also a textual source for the
ChristianChristian Old
Testament. These texts are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew, with
some passages in
Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel, Ezra and a
few others). The traditional Hebrew text is known as the Masoretic
Text
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Wisdom BooksWisdomWisdom literature is a genre of literature common in the ancient Near
East. It consists of statements by sages and wise men that offer
teachings about divinity and virtue. Although this genre uses
techniques of traditional oral story-telling, it was disseminated in
written form.
The literary genre of mirrors for princes, which has a long history in
Islamic and Western Renaissance literature, is a secular cognate of
wisdom literature. In Classical Antiquity, the didactic poetry of
Hesiod, particularly his Works and Days, was regarded as a source of
knowledge similar to the wisdom literature of Egypt, Babylonia, and
Israel.Contents1 Ancient Egyptian literature
2 Biblical wisdom literature and Jewish texts2.1 Sapiential Books2.1.1 Septuagint3 Classical texts
4 See also
5 Notes and references
6 BibliographyAncient Egyptian literature[edit]
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Five Megillot
The Five Scrolls or The
Five MegillotFive Megillot (Hebrew: חמש מגילות‬
[χaˈmeʃ meɡiˈlot], Hamesh Megillot or Chomeish Megillos) are
parts of the
KetuvimKetuvim ("Writings"), the third major section of the
TanakhTanakh (Hebrew Bible). The Five Scrolls are the Song of Songs, the
Book of Ruth, the Book of Lamentations,
EcclesiastesEcclesiastes and the Book of
Esther. These five relatively short biblical books are grouped
together in Jewish tradition.Contents1 History
2 Liturgical use
3 Other uses
4 Cantillation
5 See also
6 References
7 External linksHistory[edit]
An early testimony that these five scrolls were grouped together is in
the
MidrashMidrash Rabba. This midrash was compiled on the Pentateuch and on
the Five Scrolls.
Liturgical use[edit]A cabinet containing the five megillot
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Twelve Minor Prophets
The Minor Prophets or Twelve Prophets (Aramaic: תרי עשר‎, Trei
Asar, "The Twelve"), occasionally Book of the Twelve, is the last book
of the Nevi'im, the second main division of the Jewish Tanakh. The
collection is broken up to form twelve individual books in the
Christian Old Testament, one for each of the prophets. The terms
"minor prophets" and "twelve prophets" can also refer to the twelve
traditional authors of these works.
The term "Minor" relates to the length of each book (ranging from a
single chapter to fourteen); even the longest is short compared to the
three major prophets, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. It is not known
when these short works were collected and transferred to a single
scroll, but the first extra-biblical evidence we have for the Twelve
as a collection is c
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Ezra–Nehemiah
Ezra–
NehemiahNehemiah is a book in the
Hebrew BibleHebrew Bible found in the Ketuvim
section. The Christian scholar
OrigenOrigen in the 3rd century, noting that
the other Hebrew historical books; Samuel, Kings and Chronicles were
'doubled', proposed that
EzraEzra too should be separated into two books,
which he denoted as I
EzraEzra and II Ezra, dealing respectively with the
careers of
EzraEzra and Nehemiah; but no surviving Christian Bibles from
antiquity follow this principle. Surviving manuscripts of the
Christian Old Testament, both in Greek and Old Latin consistently
witness otherwise the two books of
EzraEzra known as '
Esdras A' and Esdras
B, corresponding respectively to
Greek EsdrasGreek Esdras and the undivided
Ezra-Nehemiah
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Torah
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TorahTorah (/ˈtɔːrəˌˈtoʊrə/; Hebrew: תּוֹרָה‬,
"instruction, teaching") is the central reference of Judaism. It has a
range of meanings. It can most specifically mean the first five books
(Pentateuch) of the 24 books of the Tanakh, and is usually printed
with the rabbinic commentaries (perushim)
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Book Of MalachiMalachiMalachi (or Malachias; Hebrew: מַלְאָכִי‎, Malʾaḫi,
Mál'akhî) is the last book of the
NeviimNeviim contained in the Tanakh,
the last of the
Twelve Minor ProphetsTwelve Minor Prophets (canonically) and the final book
of the Neviim. In the
ChristianChristian ordering, the grouping of the
Prophetic Books is the last section of the Old Testament, making
MalachiMalachi the last book before the New Testament.
The book is commonly attributed to a prophet by the name of "Malachi,"
as its title has frequently been understood as a proper name, although
its Hebrew meaning is simply "My messenger" (or "His messenger" in the
Septuagint) and may not be the author's name at all. The name occurs
in the superscription at 1:1 and in 3:1, although it is highly
unlikely that the word refers to the same character in both of these
references
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